eSATA to Transmit Power, Too

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On Monday, the Serial ATA Standards Organization (SATA-IO) said it was working on a plan to deliver power over the external SATA (eSATA) bus during the second half of 2008.

Really, there’s not any more to it than that. The key, however, is the possibility of eliminating another annoying power brick, and letting eSATA carry the load, as it were.

What wasn’t said was what that maximum power load will be, which would go a long way toward determining what products will be bus powered (an individual drive, say) and what won’t (a multi-drive NAS in a RAID configuration).

“Enhancing eSATA with power delivery will provide a new level of convenience to the designer and the end user,” said Knut Grimsrud, SATA-IO president and Intel Fellow, whose apparent goal in life is to particpate in the development of every PC I/O standard that has, is, or will ever exist. “By eliminating the need for a separate power connection, customers can more easily expand their storage, making Serial ATA an even more attractive solution for mainstream storage applications.”

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